Friday, August 12, 2005

Monk Hat with Pattern!

All these hats I made for the family I'd been living with in Japan, and here's the last one! I made this hat for their Dad, the Zen Buddhist Priest, hence, it's The Monk Hat :)

Supplies: 8mm 16"(40cm) circular needle
(MC)1 50gram ball of worsted weight 100% wool
(CC)1 50 gram ball of worsted weight (or slightly thicker) fluffy boucle-style yarn (I used a wool/acrylic almost eyelash blend from Filatura di Crosa, but it may be discontinued, i don't know the name) This stuff has the texture of Lionbrand Homespun, actually, but it's part wool. You could really use any other interesting, accent yarn for this part.

gauge: 10st/10cm (or 4 in). this is an estimate, actually, i have no ruler right now. Try on your hat after making the brim to test the size.

Holding together one strand each of mc and cc, cast on 48 st. Join.
Knit in garter st (RS knit, WS purl) for 7 or 8 rows, ending on a purl row.
Switch to two strands of the worsted wool (I pull one strand from the center and one from the outside) and continue in stockinette st (plain knitting) until the hat measures 8 inches from the bottom (add a few more rounds for someone with a larger head). The hat should cover your ears when you try it on at this point. If it does not, add a few more rounds.

Thank you for this wonderful pattern. I made the hat for my husband using 2 lightweight worsted yarns at once -- one a marine blue and the other purple. It came out great. I had to make the hat larger, however, by adding some rows. It worked out fine.

PLease help! I love this hat, but it says do garter stitch, knit right side one row, purl wrong side one row...isn't that stockinette? Isn't garter all knit? I'd love to make this for friends for Xmas, but better get started. If you read this, please respond to brds619@gmail.com! thanks in advance, Rachel

This hat is too cute!!! I knit one as a present, but ended keeping it for myself, since it was my first hat. Thank you for sharing your pattern and for keeping it simple since I'm still very new at deciphering patterns.

I love this hat, but I was wondering about an error in the pattern, it calls for garter st, but defines garter stitch as k one row, p one row... That's stockinette, right?? The same applies when the pattern refers to stockinette stitch as "plain knitting", which would be garter stitch...

how would I go about making this bigger around? I apparently have a very large head. do the stitches just have to be divisable by 2 or would 4 be better? or will it strech out alot and the extra stiches are not really needed?

To the last commenter, you could use this calculator http://www.thedietdiary.com/knittingfiend/tools/knittingHat.html to figure out how your added stitches will work for the crown shaping, but it's really quite stretchy and adding an inch or two of length should work. I'd knit the brim and try it on and see, then knit until it covers your ears before beginning the decreases.

Hi! I found your pattern when Googling hats for nuns. I've made two of the hats and love them. Would it be possible to use your pattern and make hats to donate to the Tibetan Nuns Project? I support a nun in Dharamsala. Was the other nun hat project successful that used your pattern? Thank you.

Love the hat. Have made 3 now, on normal needles. Have just purchased some circular needles and have started another one. Can see where brds16 is coming from. I was a bit confused at first, but when using circular needles it all makes sense!!!

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Ancient Chinese folklore posits that people who are meant to meet in life are born connected by an invisible Red Thread, that may tangle, but never break. I hope to untangle some threads and find new connections by sharing a hobby that I love. Find me on Ravelry as RedThread. Currently living in Germany for 3 years!